TY - BOOK ID - 30932084 TI - The prose Brut and other late medieval chronicles : books have their histories : essays in honour of Lister M. Matheson AU - Rajsic, Jaclyn AU - Kooper, Erik AU - Hoche, Dominique T. PY - 2016 VL - 8 SN - 9781903153666 1903153662 9781782046219 1782046216 PB - York : York Medieval Press, DB - UniCat KW - Manuscripts, Medieval KW - 091 =20 KW - 091:930.21 KW - Medieval manuscripts KW - Manuscripts KW - 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels KW - Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels KW - History. KW - Handschriften i.v.m. historiografie. Geschiedenis van de geschiedwetenschap KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Historiography. KW - Sources. KW - Manuscripts, English (Middle). KW - Manuscripts, Medieval. KW - Middle Ages KW - Sources KW - Manuscripts. KW - Chronicles of England. KW - To 1485. KW - England. KW - Great Britain. KW - Manuscripts, English (Middle) KW - Mss Grande-Bretagne KW - Middle Ages - Sources - Manuscripts KW - Manuscripts, Medieval - England KW - Great Britain - History - To 1485 - Sources KW - To 1485 KW - English manuscripts (Middle) KW - Manuscripts, Middle English KW - Middle English manuscripts KW - Dark Ages KW - History, Medieval KW - Medieval history KW - Medieval period KW - World history, Medieval KW - World history KW - Civilization, Medieval KW - Medievalism KW - Renaissance KW - Prose Brut KW - Brut (Medieval prose chronicle) KW - Troy. KW - anthropology. KW - background. KW - book. KW - context. KW - early print. KW - fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. KW - history. KW - literary analysis. KW - manuscript studies. KW - medieval studies. KW - medieval writing. KW - overview. KW - research. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30932084 AB - The histories of chronicles composed in England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and onwards, with a focus on texts belonging to or engaging with the Prose
Brut
tradition, are thefocus of this volume. The contributors examine the composition, dissemination and reception of historical texts written in Anglo-Norman, Latin and English, including the Prose
Brut
chronicle (c. 1300 and later),
Castleford's Chronicle
(c. 1327), and Nicholas Trevet's
Les Cronicles
(c. 1334), looking at questions of the processes of writing, rewriting, printing and editing history. They cross traditional boundaries of subject and period, taking multi-disciplinary approaches to their studies in order to underscore the (shifting) historical, social and political contexts inwhich medieval English chronicles were used and read from the fourteenth century through to the present day.
As such, the volume honours the pioneering work of the late Professor Lister M. Matheson, whose research in this area demonstrated that a full understanding of medieval historical literature demands attention to both the content of the works in question and to the material circumstances of producing those works.
Jaclyn Rajsic is a Lecturer in Medieval Literature in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London; Erik Kooper taught Old and Middle English at Utrecht University; until his retirement in 2007; Dominique Hoche is an Associate Professor at West Liberty University in West Virginia.
Contributors: Elizabeth J. Bryan, Caroline D. Eckhardt, A.S.G. Edwards, Dan Embree, Alexander L. Kaufman, Edward Donald Kennedy, Erik Kooper, Julia Marvin, William Marx, Krista A. Murchison, Heather Pagan, Jaclyn Rajsic, Christine M. Rose, NeilWeijer ER -